Jacques & Joe (in Boston) have been doing comedy stuff since 94. Jacques & Biff (LA by way of Toronto/Tokyo) been on hockey team since 96. Yap pop culture and have cool guest - comedians, respected authors, renown scientist & scholars, prominent music folks, tv/film makers and just cool friends.
Episodes
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
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Joe and Jacques saw Brian Longwell (The Corporate Comedian) a few weeks back and were blown away. Brian is more of an “act” then a stand-up comic. Part one-man show meets a half hour long hysterical Kids In The Hall sketch. Brian’s path to comedy included a long stop as an engineer at Bell Labs for years before starting his own wildly successful tech company. When we asked when Brian quite his day job and became a full-time comic … on the zoom he held up a circuit board he was designing and told us he hasn’t! He still owns his company and can’t ever stop building stuff! Brain IS looking forward to (mostly) retiring and doing more shows. Maybe the cruise circuit is in his future. Huge thanks to Brian’s MUCH better half (Nikki) for getting his zoom up and work out and for jumping in aa couple times and being AWESOME!
Follow Brian on Instagram @BCLongwell And his website: www.brianlongwell.com CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Song: WKRP parody by @Model_CHP3Y (Twitter and Youtube) Closing Song: Other Break and Lull by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (WMFO 1993 … I think)
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Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Biff and Jacques chat nick names as Jacques futbol son is on a team where lot of kids (including his 2 best pals) speak Portuguese and his name is Cabelo Longo (Long Hair) … it comes from a very sweet place … it will grow on him (see what I did there) but we LOVE it. ON OTHER HAND … Cabelo Longo’s U14 teammates had racist things yelled to them in Futbol championship game in Amherst NH.
Biff and Jacques have a hockey brother (Guitar Center Scottie) in LA whose Japanese Boy Band model looking son moved to Quebec to play prep school hockey … he was in Boston area so Jacques and his son got to see and hand out and really was a good day.
Jacques family got to be in room while Management’s boss talked with her pal who currently is on the ISS (yes, the International Space Station).
A classic Joe Self Indulgent Theater, talk some of Jacques comedy stuff and how Taylor Swift is not an economy unto herself… and … she’s awesome.
CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Song: Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond ID
Closing Song: All Pissed Off by Dan Cray (DanCray.net)
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
We each came up with a list of 10 sounds from our childhoods (to early adulthood) that defines us.
We knew we’d have some cross over but there were a lot of fun surprises –
Here were our list.
Biff: Bionic SFX from 6 Million Dollar Man, Space Invaders Aliens Descending, Radio Fuss, Japanese Paper Trucks, Godzilla Cry, Answering Machine Beeps, WKBS Do You Know, Ultra Man Transforming Sounds, Soda Can Tabs, 8-Track Changing Song Chuck.
Joe: Loony Tunes Theme, Super Mario Bros Theme, PBS Closing Credits Logo, MBTA Doors Opening and Door Closing Sounds, 70’s Sitcom Opening Cheer, CBS Special Presentation Logo, Apple IIe Booting Up, Ghost Buster Proton Pack Charging and Firing, Price Is Right – DING,
Jacques: Light Sabre Turning On – Duel Starting, Missile Command, Boston Bruins Theme Music, Polaroid Picture being taken, Jiffy Pop, Polaroid Picture Being Taken, Dos Matrix Printer, Star Trek Teleporter, Rotary Telephone, Dodge Ball Ping-ing.
CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond ID
Closing Song: Mind Time by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Sure, they could have stayed home and watched it for free on Peacock BUT Jacques kids have been waiting nearly 10 years to see the long rumored FNAF (Five Nights At Freddy’s) movie hit the big screen for off to the big screen they went.
Joe and friend of podcast Jim went to Jacques show this past week at Luna Theater in Lowell and they chat headliner Brian Longwell and his MOCK motivational speaker corporate presentation routine. GOLD.
We chat Joe’s latest curations to his Plex account and how a 1974 episode of Jabbewocky they watched about representation and cultural appropriation – it could run today with zero edits made.
CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Song: Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond ID
Closing Song: Moe by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (like 1991 I think)
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
HOW did we talk Hafen doing weather mapping in Africa and NONE of us made a Toto reference? WOW!
So part 2 of our talk with long time pal Hafen (allegedly) zooming in from Sweden where (allegedly) he has become a citizen.
We get more into the weeds where I put the case out there that this guy … who has ALL the intangibles a government toppling clandestine black ops off the books organization would recruit – SO well rounded with degree in mechanical engineering / applied physics from top university … near 40 years of programing (hacking) and (alleged) Masters in climate science, speaks several languages, charming, good looking, no drug/alcohol issues, no ex-wife or kids, very little immediate family … works in field where totally plausible to drop off grid globally and be out of reach without raising any red flags for weeks … months …
In 6 months … if Joe, Biff and Jacques haven’t meet their collective demise in some weird bizarre strangely coincidental manor … and Haf hasn’t fallen off the flat earth on a mission … we will circle back and Biff and Joe solo will chat with Haf and see what questions and conclusions they come back with.
Here is ALL Hafen’s social media links: There Are None.
CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Song: Theme To James Bond by Moby (totally used without permission.)
Closing Song: Recess by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (like 1991 I think)
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
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Biff and Jacques have been pals with Hafen for over 25 years. 1998 to 2004 Jacques doesn’t think he hung out with any one person more.
Joe first met Hafen when they were in Jacques’ Starter Wedding together in 1999 (bit of talk about that infamous wedding event on this episode.)
THIS is our first 2-part episode. Part 2 will drop next week.
It was decided that we will have Hafen back in a few months to let Biff and Joe formulate more questions and ponder am I (attempting) to be funny or is it possible Hafen is Jason Bourne. As Jacques said … He loves Hafen. He’s closer to Hafen then his own brother. He has no idea who Hafen is.
Jacques case is this: Since 2004 Hafen left LA to allegedly go back to grad school in Washington in his early 30s for a masters in weather mapping that would take him to far reaching points on globe. Hafen has little immediate family. Is good looking and charming. Super strong and a good athlete. Degree from top engineering college in Applied Physics and mechanical engineering. Self-taught computer expert (started in the 80’s) and is at highest level programing and hacking, Speaks a few languages. Has called several countries on 3 continents “Home” in last decade. His career (and starting with grad school in 04) has him in remote areas and places where power going out for days is the norm … or he’s on insane deadline plus 9-hour time zones different so we can’t talk for days/weeks … in other words plausible deniability of being off the grid while doing M.I.5 stuff in Africa.
Here is ALL his social media links: There Are None. CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Song: Theme To Bourne Identity by Moby (totally used without permission.)
Closing Song: Tucker by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (off 2023 release: The Trump Era. On DanCray.net and Spotify)
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Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
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No Biff … mostly because Jacques is too dumb to know how the days of the week work.
Jacques had a few “Booked” shows cancel (studio audience sighs) BUT some time the comedy gods (small G) take away and sometimes they give as just as quickly a couple very cool comedy ops fell his way.
Joe, Jacques and his managers wife’s life are so much better with the podcast Strike Force 5 (and Open Mic Pain) bringing so much joy into their lives. Give em a listen.
Joe game system tinkering continues, Jacques doing a 24-Hour-Film-Festival and Aaron Rodgers Achilles heel is busted buy his big mouth is working overtime.
Jacques goes from having ZERO sports kids to having 2 sports kids and is draining and awesome.
So much TV and so little time: Only Murders, Loki, Asoka, Beckham, Pornhub … CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond ID Closing Song: Standard Practices by Beyond Id (Live At The Ratt In Boston circa 1996)
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Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
With Halloween season upon up we decided to do a special re-posting of Sideshow # 67 from 4/19/21 - Paul Devers: Champion – World Renowned Pumpkin (Food) Carver. Since winning Food Channel’s “Outrageous Pumpkins” years ago, Paul has been a Food Network judge and personality. Paul is the creator of the wildly successful YouTube series: Carvers And Creators. Carvers and Creators few years back grew to the point where Oscar and Emmy winners (set designers, Prop experts, Special Effects … ect) ask them to come on the show. The yearly carving contest draws entries from every point on the globe.
We say this a lot … but THIS really is a great episode! The laughs per minute ratio hits an all time Carnival Personnel Podcast high and it’s ALL due to the guest - world champion pumpkin carver, artist, drummer, YouTube personality and hysterical dude, Paul Dever. If Paul wasn’t too busy with his YouTube show (Carvers and Creators) we’d have him be the full-time host of CP!
Paul talks his path to watching Food Network saying to himself (and his wife) I can do that … to a couple years later WINNING Food Channels 2019s Carving Championship… toughest part (spoiler alert) he won it in 2018 but it didn’t air for a year so had to keep quiet about it the whole time!
How this world works, what’s ahead for Paul in this space and how he’s made life-long friends with artist heroes along the way … seriously, this really is a fun episode. And if you don’t like it at the end … it comes with a money back guarantee.
Check Paul Devers out at:
https://www.youtube.com/c/CarversCreators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyw2zHTb35Y
https://www.facebook.com/DeverCustoms/
DeverCustoms on Instagram
CP: Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carnivalpodcast/
CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Clips: It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Closing Song: Dan Cray and Beyond Id “Laid”
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Joe & Jacques (and our friend Julie) headed over to the mecca of comedy rooms inside Chine’s restaurants in the Merrimac Valley (China Blossom N. Andover MA) to see last weeks guest Lauren Sims host an amazing line up. Biff SADLY wasn’t part of the field trip or this recording.
We chat Jacques breaking thru the glass ceiling of Lowell comedy and doing the cable access show The Golden Toilet … and going to a reverse ambush mic to see friend James Hamilton do what he thought was a “real” booked show.
Joe chats seeing the famed Blue Man Group for first time (thanks to his oldest kid pulling some strings!) And updates us on … OUR happy places. The NEW-Seum 2.0
Jacques goes from having zero sports kids to having two sports kids and his oldest son learning fast how everything Jacques worried about with organized sports (the politics, the pettiness …) SUCKS. BUT … at least POS Aaron Rodgers seasons sucks more.
Anyone see lost stealth fighter pentagon lost … anyone NOT see Family Values 36 yr old grandma Q’anon Hand-job McGee at Beetlejuice play? Parenting times … ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!
CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Song: Welcome Back Kotter Parody (By Joe and Chipboy)
Closing Song: New One by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (DanCray.Net)
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Lauren Sims is a comedian Joe and Jacques caught last month at Greg Boggis’ “Mondo Comedy” at The Luna Theater In Lowell. A Gen-X comic whose material really landed and hit home with us!
Joe’s under the weather and Biff has grown up stuff so the for mentioned lovely and talented (and former guest) Mr. Greg Boggis stepped in to co-host this episode with Jacques.
Lauren on somewhat of a whim and maybe dealing with a mid-life awakening in 2019 decided to check out Boston comic legend Tony V’s classes … and just as she nailed her graduation showcase … in the first week of March 2020…. Well … you know … Covid.
Now this mom of two teen girls juggles all that insanity as she builds her comedy (and hosting) career in the very competitive (yet surprisingly supportive) New England comedy circuit. Lauren’s goals are focused well beyond the north east corridor!
Greg had some great insights and tips as a veteran comic, comedy show producer and host.
This was a super fun chat. Jacques plans to rope Joe (if he survives this bug) to see Lauren host at Wicket Funny Comedy at The China Blossom in North Andover THIS Saturday, Sept. 23rd with headliner Tony V and of course we will be at Luna Theater in Lowell for Greg’s monthly Mondo Comedy on Thursday Sept. 28!
Laurensims_71 on Instagram and Lauren Sims on Facebook
Greg is BoggisNews on Instagram and check out Boggiscomedy.com for his shows!
CPP on IG: @CarnivalPersonnelPodcast and on Twitter: @Carnival Podcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 (but really … @CarnivalPodcast)
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Closing Song: Tucker by Dan Cray and Beyond Id (DanCray.Net)
Thanks to Lauren Sims for the use of her comedy clips on this episode AND check out Dan’s latest EP, “The Trump Era” on Spotify